Explain Resources + Admin to the n00b

[Durandal]

Hi all

I'm giving the Dominions II demo a bash and one thing that has me thoroughly confused is how resources and admin interact. A couple of questions:

1. If the total admin draw on a province from its neighbours exceeds 100%, does it get equally divided between them?

2. Can a fortress province draw resources from another fortress province?

3. If so, is draw calculated from original resource production or the post draw resource total (can't see how this would work)?

4. Provinces only produce 50% of their potential resources without a fort. Does if you have 40% admin draw, is this 40% of that 50%, or 40% of the full potential of the province? Assuming the later, would the fortless province be left with 10% of its resources or still the full 50%?

Hope that makes sense I have read the maladjustite walkthrough, and couldnt find any answers there. Please feel free to direct me elsewhere if there is a more in depth study of admin and resources available.

[Alneyan]

Hello, and welcome aboard!

1) I think it will be divided according to their respective admin values; if all of those are equal, it will be equally divided (you can have different admin values because of random events, sites, and conquest).

2) I would think so, though it would go both ways, and would more or less be the same.

3) Province resource production should be the answer here, with all admin taking place at one moment.

4) It should draw 40% of those 50%, as there is no fort on the province being drawn on. That will leave 60% of the 50% in the province itself.

[Durandal]

Ta for that, glad you understood what I was asking

Does the game manual itself include good documentation of how resources work? I might need to do some playtesting to figure some of this stuff out.

[Endoperez]

It has about as much as Alneyan explained here. Explanation of resources, why they aren't stored, and explanation of forts without many numbers mentioned.